On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:03:42 -0800 thewade <pdman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lets say your building a machine for live realtime processing > performance using PD: what windomanager is lightweight enough to not > draw too much CPU power away from the audio apps, yet has a "desktop" > and a customizable menubar able to do menus inside of menus? With a properly tuned -rt system it should simply not matter how much cpu your desktop environment or any other non rt app eats. They will never disturb the rt part of the system. Under high jack load a heavy desktop might get more sluggish than a lean one, but that's perfectly ok. This will not disturb the realtime part of the system. I used to run gnome for a very long time together with my audio stuff. It always worked flawlessly. I abandoned gnome after a while though because it simply takes to fricking long to load on a freshly booted box. I use xfce4 now. And although it misses some features i'd like to see (or i am simply too blind to find the docs for them), it loads fast and seems like a very good compromise between features and bloat. Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org
